快讯：孟晚舟败诉，将开启引渡程序 引渡审判继续
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加拿大(专题)法院以双重犯罪起诉华为(专题)首席财务官孟晚舟； 引渡审判继续
在今天受到密切关注的一项裁决中，不列颠哥伦比亚省最高法院在引渡孟晚舟一案中发表了一项关键裁决。孟晚舟是中国最大的电信公司华为技术有限公司的首席财务官，也是美国决策者经常瞄准的目标。
法院在裁决中说，该案符合“双重犯罪”的标准，因此将允许继续进行引渡听证。 这一决定对华为造成了沉重打击，华为曾希望结束诉讼，并将孟晚舟带回中国。
这是关于孟和华为自身命运的长期传奇中的关键时刻。 应美国当局的要求，她于2018年12月1日在温哥华国际机场被捕，她最终以一系列欺诈罪起诉她和华为本身。
Techcrunch News / Canada court finds against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou on double criminality; extradition trial to continue
In a closely-watched decision today, the Supreme Court of British Columbia published a key decision in the extradition case of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Huawei Technologies, China’s largest telecommunications company and a frequent target of U.S. policymakers.
In its ruling, the court said that the case met the standard for “double criminality,” and thus the extradition hearing will be allowed to continue. That decision represents a major blow to Huawei, which had hoped to end the suit and bring Meng home back to China.
It’s a pivotal moment in the long-running saga over the fate of Meng and Huawei itself. She was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on December 1, 2018 at the request of U.S. authorities, who eventually indicted her and Huawei itself with a bevy of fraud charges.
Those charges stemmed from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice looking into Huawei’s ties with a number of affiliates including Skycom Tech Co Ltd, which is alleged to have sold telecommunications equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. Huawei uses American technology in its products, and under U.S. export laws, companies are forbidden from transferring that technology to countries under sanction. Huawei has previously denied that it controlled the companies, and has vigorously defended itself in the case.
Meng has been under house arrest in Vancouver for almost a year and a half pending deliberations of the Canadian courts. The case has seen intense scrutiny from China, the U.S. and Canadian authorities, and has become a symbol of the continuing trade fight between the U.S. and China.
Today’s decision comes from a narrowly focused court hearing in January on a Canadian legal doctrine known as “double criminality,” which states that a subject needs to face criminal charges in both Canada and the receiving country in order for an extradition to be approved. While courts generally handle all aspects of extradition at once, the judge in this case, associate chief justice Heather Holmes, decided to split Meng’s extradition hearing into phases, given that without double criminality, the case would be automatically closed.
The decision on Meng, who is the daughter of Huawei’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, is just one of many different battles that Huawei has faced in recent months.
Over the weekend, the company faced a new blow to its prospects in the West after the United Kingdom, which had been a lukewarm but steady supporter of using Huawei’s equipment in its next-generation 5G networks, announced that it was reversing its decision and would wean itself off of Huawei equipment over the coming years.
Meanwhile in the U.S., the Trump administration has focused intently on the company as it attempts to shift the balance of power in the United States’ trade relations with China. Two weeks ago, the Trump administration extended its technology export restrictions on Huawei, endangering the company’s ability to product its chips and smartphones. TSMC, the world’s largest contract semiconductor fab, said that it wasn’t accepting new orders from Huawei in light of the new restrictions. At the same time, TSMC announced a massive, $12 billion manufacturing facility in Arizona.
While the Trump administration has made economic combat with Huawei a policy priority, that strategy has not been endorsed by the entire federal government, with departments and agencies like the Department of Defense worried that the restrictions on export licenses could ultimately have deleterious, second-order effects on American industrial competitiveness.
Indeed, given the continuing situation with the U.S., Huawei itself has said that one of its most important missions is to build its equipment using entirely domestic Chinese components, veering around U.S. export controls and breaking free of their confines. Assisting on that front is China’s government itself, which has put up billions of dollars in new funding to build up its domestic chipmaking capabilities.
It’s a complex situation, and one that Western policymakers have struggled to come to a unified approach on. As our writer Scott Bade described a few weeks ago, countries like Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States are struggling to come to agreement on Huawei and China’s tech forays more generally, with each country approaching the issue from its own point-of-view and from different levels of engagement with the Chinese mainland.
While the Meng case is just the latest salvo in the on-going battle here, expect more skirmishes ahead.
